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Word: sushila (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quite by accident, Hari meets Sushila, a dark, big-boned, full-breasted girl with tumbling black hair ("A real Punjabi beauty," clucks his aunt). Soon the marriage-broker mills are grinding, and Hari, as he almost admits to himself, is secretly relieved. Amrita's clan also starts making other arrangements. Still spouting defiance and undying love, Amrita and Hari find that the sight of each other is not a stab at the heart but a pain in the neck. At novel's end, Hari is leading Sushila seven times around the ritual wedding fire, and Amrita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Marjorie | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...American imperialism in Korea." Worst of all, Malan's government also ignored him, and proved that passive resistance might be the best weapon against passive resistance. No summons for his arrest came. Gandhi last week went back to the library and railroad station, this time taking his wife Sushila along. Again there was no arrest. Gandhi and his wife dejectedly drove away in their blue Chevrolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Unaccepted Challenge | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Clad in a gold-colored silk sari, Dr. Sushila Nayar, disciple and personal physician to the late Mohandas K. Gandhi, carried the Mahatma's gospel all the way to Dallas: "If every Texan would adopt a policy of nonviolence, there would be no new problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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